General Evans Above Archive for Aug 18, 2002

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Aug 18, 2002 – permalink

Todd Dominey’s whatdoiknow blog comments on a piece done by CNN’s Howard Kurtz. Kurtz points out that the death of Elvis Presley was not the lead story on the three major networks back in ’77.

Flash forward to the present. Despite all that’s happening in the world around us, look at how the news frequently leads with celebrity stories. I was perturbed back in April when the Robert Blake arrest led the news over the death of four Canadian soldiers killed by a US bomb in Afghanistan.

Look, I’ll lead off with Blake, Aaliyah, who won what and who married who. But that’s my beat. The real newscasts shouldn’t morph into Access Hollywood.